A burglar who was chased out of a property in Huntingdon has been jailed after he was identified by a fingerprint he left on a Star Wars tin decorated with the character Yoda.

Matthew Douglas, 28, entered two flats in Nursery Road, Huntingdon,Cambridgeshire at about 5.30am on June 2 stealing various items including electrical equipment, a briefcase and the tin picturing the Star Wars Jedi master.

Douglas was then chased out of a second property by a man he had woken up and as he ran away he dropped some of the items including the tin.

The Yoda tin (Image: Cambridgeshire Police)

Later on that day a woman reported that her vehicle had been broken into in Hartford Road and a small amount of blood had been left at the scene.

A black bag containing first aid supplies that had been stolen from the woman's car was found outside one of the flats where the burglaries had taken place.

Douglas was arrested the following day after officers received the results of forensic tests on the items left at the scene.

Matthew Douglas was also caught on CCTV stealing meat from Marks and Spencer (Image: PA)

The 28-year-old was also captured on CCTV stealing meat from Marks and Spencer in Chequers Court, Huntingdon, on May 27 and alcohol from the Co-op in Cambridge Road, Godmanchester on the 28.

Douglas, of St Clements Passage in Huntingdon, admitted two counts of burglary, one of theft from a motor vehicle and two of theft from a shop.

Yesterday, November 27, at Peterborough Crown Court he was sentenced to three years and two months in prison for the two counts of burglary and theft from a motor vehicle. The two counts of theft from a shop were taken into consideration.